We often hear that the lens aperture of your smartphone camera is important for low light photography, but what does that really mean? Gizmag looks at what lens aperture is, how it works, and what you should look out for on your next smartphone.
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China's Vivo is about to release a flagship LTE-capable Android phone named the Xshot that features a 13 MP camera at the back with a deliciously fast F1.8 lens and optical image stabilization, and an 8 MP selfie cam to the front, along with 4K video and high-end audio as added pot-sweeteners.
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Blu Products has unleashed a new 5.5-inch display smartphone called the Life Pure XL that's built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 mobile processor, and features a 16 MP rear-facing camera with a compact camera-like image sensor and an AF selfie snapper to the front.
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Google’s new Camera app for Android aims to address one of the greatest advantages that big-sensor, big-pricetag DSLR cameras have over phone cameras – the ability to blur out the background and achieve a bokeh effect. Very cool.
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Using the HISY, selfies don't have to possess that "I'm holding my phone out at the end of my arm" look. We recently got our hands on one, and gave it a try.
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A new start-up is set to start producing mobile phone camera lenses that it claims will "capture better images than anything else on the market." US-based Moment this week launched a 30-day Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the production of its lenses, and doubled its target within 28 hours.
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Ever since Paris Hilton and her night vision outtakes took center stage, the technology has grown exponentially in popularity. Now, a product called Snooperscope aims to bring similar technology to the masses through the use of smartphones and tablets.
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OmniVision has unveiled a new 12.7 megapixel camera chip sensor capable of full resolution image capture at 24 frames per second.
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Samsung has unveiled a new 1/3.2-inch 8-megapixel CMOS imager, the S5K3H7, which utilizes 1.4um backside illuminated (BSI) pixel technology for capturing photos in low-light situations.
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This strap-on lens makes a cheap solution for taking macro shots with any camera phone.
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